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VINTAGE - Families of Value

  • VINTAGE - Families of Value
© Chimpanzee Productions
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title : Vintage Families Of Value
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1995
Format : Feature
Running time : 75 (in minutes)
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VINTAGE - Families of Value is a fantasy documentary film which intimately explores three African-American families through the eyes of lesbian and gay male siblings - two or more in the same family.

Directed by Thomas Allen HARRIS
72 minutes, 1995, Color

Awards:

Best Documentary Video, 20th Annual Atlanta Film and Video Festival,1996

Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1996

Awarded Best Documentary by the 1996 Atlanta International Film Festival and a Golden Gate by the 1996 San Francisco International Film Festival, this lyrical and impressionistic film, blends intimate and sometimes painful conversations between family members, with dramatic re-creations, verit* footage, performance, audio visual collage and archival photos and films to sketch a provocative tableau of three modern black families negotiating sexuality and identity.

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Guerrilla Arts
  • HOT
  • Bayimba
  • Uganda Women Writers Association
  • Arts 256
  • 32º East
  • Amakula Festival

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